Concerning the original STAR TREK II THE WRATH OF KHAN LP SOUNDTRACK Release.
Always felt this was totally rude to the composer.
Here they obviously felt that you knowing it was a "Digital Recording" was far more important than letting you know that James Horner composed the great score.
Was the reason Horner's name was left off, possibly that the producers of the album figured since James Horner was a relative unknown at the time and people simply adored the STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE Soundtrack score (which was a Top Seller), that by "not advertising" Goldsmith composed STAR TREK II, people would figure he did and just buy the album assuming it was done by Jerry? Sounds kind of convoluted, but it could be very true.
Do you know of any other instances where the composer was not credited on the Front Cover of a Soundtrack LP or CD?
Has anyone in an interview had the guts to simply say to and ask Horner,
"You reused Prokofiev's music from ROMEO AND JULIET in STAR TREK III and Prokofiev's IVAN THE TERRIBLE in GLORY. How do you feel about using other composer's music in your scores?"
Is it okay when a composer is long dead and buried, to use their music and give them no credit? Albeit I simply love how Horner used IVAN THE TERRIBLE in GLORY and expanded on it brilliantly to work in the film so wonderfully.
I think the FSM magazine might have had a ballsy interviewer capable of dropping the hammer on ol' Jamie once upon a time. It would contrast the more PR-type piece that used to appear towards the front of the magazine. Remember that?
Wonder how composers feel when their name is not on the front cover of Soundtrack Release?
I'd love to ask a group of composers that question. Does it matter? Of course it's nice to recognized and given credit where credit is due.
If you were a composer, would you want your name on the front of the album and if you used other dead composers music in your score, would you insist on a credit that read "Some music inspired by and re-orchestrated from ... example "Some music from the track Kirk Bitch Slaps Spock inspired by Prokofiev's PETER AND THE WOLF"?
And then there's the complete opposite where they used famous past composer credits to help sell the album. Johnny even got his name above the name of the Movie!
I remember my Original THE FURY LP with it's Front Cover sticker reading:
"MORE BRILLIANT MUSIC FROM THE COMPOSER OF STAR WARS AND CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND"
Offhand, I can think of two others, both (probably coincidentally) Terry Gilliam films: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen does not list Michael Kamen on the cover, and The Fisher King does not mention George Fenton.
